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Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
Gwendolyn Brooks
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Gwendolyn Brooks
Age: 83 †
Born: 1917
Born: June 7
Died: 2000
Died: December 3
Novelist
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Topeka
Kansas
Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks
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Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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Be yourself. Don't imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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I don't like the idea of the black race being diluted out of existence. I like the idea of all of us being here.
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I've always thought of myself as a reporter. When people ask why I don't stop writing, I say, `Look at what's happening in this world. Every day there's something exciting or disturbing to write about.’ With all that's going on, how could I stop?
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The music is in minors.
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With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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Reading is important - read between the lines. Don't swallow everything.
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I am an ordinary human being who is impelled to write poetry. ... I still do feel that a poet has a duty to words, and that words can do wonderful things, and it's too bad to just let them lie there without doing anything with and for them.
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I who have gone the gamut from an almost angry rejection of my dark skin by some of my brainwashed brothers and sisters to a surprised queenhood in the new Black sunam qualified to enter at least the kindergarten of new consciousness now... I have hopes for myself.
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Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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When I start writing a poem, I don't think about models or about what anybody else in the world has done.
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Exhaust the little moment / Soon it dies.
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I think there are things for all of us to do as long as we're here and we're healthy.
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